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Wisconsin Democrats need to take back narrative from Republicans
Badger Herald ^ | April 30, 2015 | Miles Brown, senior maj. polisci and hist w/ Russian, East Euro/Asain studies

Posted on 04/30/2015 5:35:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“They need to thoroughly determine how their causes positively impact the everyday non-partisan Wisconsinites beyond blanket answers that vaguely reference the one percent and/or the middle class. The most important step in this process is to figure out a way to get citizens to care enough about those impacts to come to the polls.”

That all sounds good and makes a liberal socialist [feel] good, but, then the reality of liberalism and socialism smacks them in the face:

Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., ............

Democrat socialist are finding it hard to run from their failed policies and the consequences of same!

21 posted on 04/30/2015 6:19:30 AM PDT by paratrooper82 ( 82nd ABN DIV. 1/508th BN "Fury from the Sky" Civil war is coming)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah, they can talk up their successes in Detroit, Ferguson, and Baltimore.


22 posted on 04/30/2015 6:19:49 AM PDT by tje
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To: freedumb2003

To be honest, I don’t recall anyone in the lamestream media predicting that Abortion Barbie would win in Texas. No one ever believed that Abortion Barbie had a chance, not even Abortion Barbie.

Abortion Barbie knew that she had no chance of even getting re-elected to her state senate seat. If she had run a losing campaign for her state senate seat, no one would ever hear from her again. By running a losing campaign for governor, she could become a liberal media darling and milk it for big bucks on the liberal talking circuit.


23 posted on 04/30/2015 6:20:10 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: MortMan

Take back the narrative = Tell lies better than the enemy.

It’s quite revealing that a so-called student doesn’t believe in objective truth but only in the spin.

It’s also interesting how MLK is treated as a deity while an actual deity is not.


24 posted on 04/30/2015 6:25:46 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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It’s quite revealing that a so-called student doesn’t believe in objective truth but only in the spin.

That's what they've been taught. Note his majors and the emphasis.

25 posted on 04/30/2015 6:33:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Praise for Republicans “narrative” shows how far removed from reality this little twerp is


26 posted on 04/30/2015 6:59:24 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob; All

“.....The question is whether Bush’s civility will turn his presidential campaign into a suicide mission. After six years of the Obama presidency, many Republicans — not only the ones on talk radio — want a fighter, not a lover. Polls by the Pew Research Center have found that most conservatives want their leaders to stand by the party’s principles, not to compromise with the other side. (Liberals break the opposite way, in favor of compromise.)

There’s a path for Bush to win the GOP nomination, beginning in New Hampshire, whose contrary voters often embrace civility. It helps that independents can vote in the GOP primary there.

The path requires Bush to win solid support from a silent majority of non-tea-party Republicans, who make up a little more than half of the party. It probably requires several of the more conservative candidates — Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz — to knock each other out. (That’s partly how Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2012, although he faced less formidable challengers.) And it probably requires one more ingredient: a flash or two of unwonted pugnacity from the candidate.”....

http://www.havasunews.com/opinion/doyle-mcmanus-is-jeb-bush-too-reasonable-for-republicans/article_b3519f3e-ef38-11e4-b0af-070dc3415cf0.html


27 posted on 04/30/2015 7:04:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Poor kid doesn’t understand that RATs have nothing to say other than “Vote for me and I’ll give you stuff.”


28 posted on 04/30/2015 7:13:14 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: paratrooper82; All

“.....Finally, Walker made an under-the-radar move that is worthy of notice. His presidential SuperPAC hired Shirley & Banister, one of the most respected P.R. firms in the conservative movement, to handle its messaging and strategy. The P.R. firm was founded by Craig Shirley, the best-selling biographer of Ronald Reagan. I know this firm well, because I retained their services myself the past few months. Their main interest is promoting causes/people that are advancing movement conservatism. So they’re not going to sign on with Walker in order to promote milquetoast (Commandment #9)....”

http://stevedeace.com/news/winner-of-the-week-scott-walker/


29 posted on 04/30/2015 7:17:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"which allows them to impose their agenda with little to no protest."

This guy is already a proficient and embarrassing liar, so he should be a good Democrat. No protests? How about the massive protests that shut down the state government a few years ago and led to a recall election? What about Chisholm's two-year witch hunt and home invasions? What a jerk this guy is.
30 posted on 04/30/2015 7:28:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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"Is this guy living in some parallel universe where Republicans rule Wisconsin and the protests and "occupy the state house" riots of the past 4 years never happened?

Not to mention the recall election. This guy sounds damaged.
31 posted on 04/30/2015 7:29:30 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I cruised around that college paper's website and found a series of articles related to something called "Hump Day," which is apparently some college-sponsored (or at least tolerated) day on which everyone is supposed to have sex, and the more bizarre the sex is, apparently the better, based on the nature of the articles a saw.

One article prescribed anal sex with harnesses, another advocated sex during menstruation, another talked about penis size, another depicted a nude male (blurred in the key place) showing up at the front door of a house and exposing himself to (apparently) a female acquaintance and her mother.

Keep in mind that this is the context within which young people support gay marriage, i.e., a context in which sex is simultaneously trivialized, cheapened, and exalted in a bizarre, tawdry sort of way. Our nation's campuses have become moral cesspools.
32 posted on 04/30/2015 7:44:05 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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“This guy is already a proficient and embarrassing liar, so he should be a good Democrat. No protests?....”

I believe he is referring to the most recent, anemic non-protest when Wisconsin became right to work - the goons on the Left were spent from the March 2011 battle over public sector unions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wisconsin-walkers-anti-union-law-has-crippled-labor-movement/2015/02/22/1eb3ef82-b6f1-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html

“......Here in King, Magnant and her fellow AFSCME members, workers at a local veterans home, have been knocking on doors on weekends to persuade former members to rejoin. Community college professors in Moraine Park, home to a technical college, are reducing dues from $59 to $36 each month. And those in Milwaukee are planing a campaign using videos and posters to highlight union principles. The theme: ­“Remember.”.....

.....While some union members have been energized by the fight, they say they notice a new, more vocal animosity toward them. It has been particularly pronounced in rural areas, where public-sector jobs were some of the most prized gigs in town.

In King, population 1,700, Magnant said she couldn’t change a sign at the union hall without someone giving her the finger. Farther west, in Stanley, prison workers said they ditched their favorite pizza pub because the owner stood by while other customers called them “leeches.”

In Reedsburg, that tension surprised Ginny Bourgeois, 52, who clerks at a local Kwik Trip. The community had always been divided, defined as much by the factories manufacturing car parts as it was by cornfields now blanketed in snow. Still, it was a place where the community got together for spaghetti and corn feeds and filled bleachers to watch the Reedsburg Beavers play. Now, she said, people were fighting over politics at gas stations.

Still, she felt unions needed to sacrifice.

“Everyone knows teachers’ insurance was some of the best you could get,” Bourgeois added.“They do fairly well around here, and they do a good job teaching. But everyone in this town has had to tighten their belts. They should too.”........


33 posted on 04/30/2015 7:54:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Steve_Seattle

It’s unbelievable.

Brown - nude week.

Northwestern - pron classes.

etc. etc. etc.

Then they scream rape, when there is no rape.


34 posted on 04/30/2015 7:56:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: freedumb2003; Bubba_Leroy

The common thread with the Wis and Tx battles for governor was the nasty, vicious, over the top attacks on the GOP candidate by their counterpart (and their supporters).

That drove voters to the polls to stick it to the Dems.

And it felt so good there will be more voters getting to the polls Nov. 2016!


35 posted on 04/30/2015 8:00:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Then they scream rape, when there is no rape."

The students and administrators are very confused. They trivialize sex by making casual sexual behavior seem almost mandatory with events like "Hump Day" and "Sex Week."

Then they are SHOCKED when students act out the message they've been given, get drunk, have casual sex with someone they just met, and wake up not remembering exactly what happened or whether they consented or not. So they start shouting "rape."

I think some of them will eventually realize how ugly, tawdry, unsafe, and demeaning all this is, and will turn away in revulsion. Some of them might even become Christians as a result of it.
36 posted on 04/30/2015 8:22:08 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Then they scream rape, when there is no rape."

One final thought on the topic: if I were a Christian student at one of those universities that sponsors "sex week" events, I'd set up a table in the student union building with a sign that said, "Sex Week is officially-tolerated pressure to engage in non-consensual and risky sex. It fosters a rape culture."

I'd like to throw that back at them, really put the squeeze on the administrators and leftist proponents of such events. Accuse them of encouraging what they claim to be against.
37 posted on 04/30/2015 8:32:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Their overreach has come back to bite them.

btw, pron = porn.


38 posted on 04/30/2015 8:41:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Rebecca Kleefisch’s fourth term as governor — and that’s a future not even some Republicans want to envision.

Um....not really. If they don't want the party to hold the Governorship then they aren't Republicans.

39 posted on 04/30/2015 8:48:01 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

>>This is also coupled with majorities in both state legislative houses for Republicans, which allows them to impose their agenda with little to no protest.

Uh, could it be that the agenda being “imposed” is what the majority of the voters voted for?

“Imposed” = something I personally don’t like.


40 posted on 04/30/2015 10:15:44 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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